The definitive primer on Southern nationalism. The South has a right to nationhood, separate from the rest of the United States.This book explores how to preserve the social, religious, political, and cultural traditions of the Southern people.
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Sweet Seraphic Fire brings together two unique bodies of American sacred song: choral compositions from the New England singing-school tradition and the most popular Evangelical Protestant hymn texts in historic American use. In the late eighteenth century the New England singing-school movement produced America’s first great sacred-music style, employing several genres of unaccompanied four-part choral compositions with the melody in the lead (tenor) part. The enormous popularity of singing-school music also promoted a canon of hymn texts shared across America’s competing Evangelical Protestant denominations. This recording contains neglected masterworks from the New England singing school that also helped to create the American hymn canon. Marking a more recent turn in this process, we have also included some new settings of traditional Evangelical lyrics written by leaders in the revival of singing-school music that has blossomed in the Northeast since 1976. ! Selection of pieces for this recording was determined by correlating “The Norumbega Harmony”–our collection of one hundred six historic New England singing-school compositions and thirty contemporary works in traditional style–with a list of the three hundred most frequently printed hymn texts in America from 1737 to 1960. –Stephen Marini
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Among the significant consequences of the Cold War’s end has been the rise of nations and the challenges that these nations pose for global order and international law. Taking a unique approach to explore this phenomenon, Beck and Ambrosio consider three principal themes: the emergence of nations, the international legal challenges that such nations pose, and international legal efforts to accommodate nations within the global state system. Students of international law, political science, and ethnic studies will find this book useful for its focus on an overlooked, but important, subject.
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Today’s crafters are no longer interested in simply cross-stitching samplers or painting floral scrolls on china. Instead, the contemporary craft movement embraces emerging artists, crafters, and designers working in traditional and nontraditional media. Jenny Hart’s Sublime Stitching has revolutionized the embroidery industry. Each year Nikki McClure sells thousands of her cut-paper wall calendars. Emily Kircher recycles vintage materials into purses. Stephanie Syjuco manufactures clothing under the tag line “Because Sweatshops Suck.” These are just some of the fascinating makers united in the new wave of craft capturing the attention of the nation, the Handmade Nation.
Faythe Levine traveled 19,000 miles to document what has emerged as a marriage between historical technique, punk culture, and the D.I.Y. ethos. For Handmade Nation (along with the documentary film of the same name, coming in 2009) she and Cortney Heimerl have selected 24 makers and 5 essayists who work within different media and have different methodologies to provide a microcosm of the crafting community. Participants in this community share ideas and encouragement through websites, blogs, boutiques, galleries, and craft fairs. Together they have forged a new economy and lifestyle based on creativity, determination, and networking. Twenty-four artists from Olympia, Washington, to Providence, Rhode Island, and everywhere in between show their work and discuss their lives. Texts by Andrew Wagner of American Craft Magazine, Garth Johnson of Extremecraft.com, Callie Janoff of the Church of Craft, Betsy Greer of Craftivism.com, and Susan Beal, author of Super Crafty, supply a critical view of the tight-knit community where ethics can overlap with creativity and art with community. Handmade Nation features photographs of the makers, their work environment, their process, their work, and discussions of how they got their start and what motivates them. Handmade Nation is a fascinating book for those who are a part of the emerging movement or just interested in sampling its wares.
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Das junge Plattenlabel Eyra Records aus Pliezhausen bei Stuttgart stellt seine zweite Metal- Compilation Metal to Metal Vol. 1 vor! Die mit 17 Titeln vollgepackte CD erscheint am 17. November 2008 und wird von der European Music Group mit Sitz in Stuttgart vertrieben. Die Käufer der Compilation können sich auf eine gelungene rund 74 Minuten lange Mischung diverser harter Metal-Stile freuen, die von unterschiedlichen Bands in ca. 3 bis 5½ Minuten langen Stücken geboten wird. Das Artwork der Produktion stammt auch diesmal von Stefan Röhm alias GraveArt. Für ein perfektes Audio- Mastering sorgte Ben Kühnl vom It rocks Mixing Studio. Alle teilnehmenden Bands sind mit Foto und Kontaktdaten im Booklet der CD vertreten. Metal to Metal Vol. 1 geht aus dem von Eyra Records ins Leben berufenen Projekt independent Metal Compilation 2008 (PIMC 2008) hervor und stellt das Pilot- Release der geplanten Reihe dar. Bereits im Frühling 2009 soll M2M Vol. 2 den interessierten Metal-Fans vorgestellt werden. Die Bewerbungsphase für das Projekt ist bereits angelaufen und endet am 28. Februar 2009. Teilnehmen können alle Metal-Bands!
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Exploring the creation, maintenance, and transformation of Confederate identity during the tumultuous years of the Civil War and Reconstruction, Rubin sheds new light on the ways in which Confederates felt connected to their national creation and provides a provocative example of what happens when a nation disintegrates and leaves its people behind to forge a new identity.
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In gangster lore, the Almighty Black P Stone Nation stands out among the most notorious street gangs. But how did teens from a povertyÂ?stricken Chicago neighborhood build a powerful organization that united 21 individual gangs into a virtual nation?
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Natalie Y. Moore and Lance Williams answer this and other questions in a provocative tale that features a colorful cast of characters from white do-gooders, black nationalists, and community organizers to overzealous law enforcement. The U.S. government funded the Nation. Louis Farrakahn hired the gangÂ?renamed the El Rukns in a tribute to IslamÂ?as his Angels of Death. Fifteen years before 9/11, the government convicted the gang of plotting terrorist acts with Libyan leader Muâ??ammar Gadhafi; currently, founding member Jeff Fort is serving a triple life sentence.
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An exciting story about the evolution of a gang, the book is an exposé of how minority crime is targeted as well as a timely look at urban violence
A manifesto by America’s most controversial and celebrated town planners, proposing an alternative model for community design.
There is a growing movement in North America to put an end to suburban sprawl and to replace the automobile-based settlement patterns of the past fifty years with a return to more traditional planning principles. This movement stems not only from the realization that sprawl is ecologically and economically unsustainable but also from a growing awareness of sprawl’s many victims: children, utterly dependent on parental transportation if they wish to escape the cul-de-sac; the elderly, warehoused in institutions once they lose their driver’s licenses; the middle class, stuck in traffic for two or more hours each day.
Founders of the Congress for the New Urbanism, Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk are at the forefront of this movement, and in Suburban Nation they assess sprawl’s costs to society, be they ecological, economic, aesthetic, or social. It is a lively, thorough, critical lament, and an entertaining lesson on the distinctions between postwar suburbia-characterized by housing clusters, strip shopping centers, office parks, and parking lots-and the traditional neighborhoods that were built as a matter of course until mid-century. It is an indictment of the entire development community, including governments, for the fact that America no longer builds towns. Most important, though, it is that rare book that also offers solutions.
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